Educators can integrate AI into projects they already know work well. By adding an AI-powered layer, teachers can create richer learning opportunities, spark new insights, and extend student thinking beyond what was previously possible.
Teacher Selena Padilla extended a project about utopias and dystopias by using ChatGPT. This document provides instructions that students followed to use ChatGPT to simulate the success of a society that they created. It also includes questions that prompted students to reflect on the feedback from ChatGPT.
Teacher Selena Padilla extended a project about utopias and dystopias by using ChatGPT. In this video, Padilla provides a voiceover of the project including the instructions, student slidedecks, and facilitation of conversation. She also shares her reflections on the project and what led to its success.
Generative AI tools like ChatGPT help students engage deeply in authentic problem-solving challenges by supporting research, ideation, and content creation. This strategy explores how students can use AI to empathize with real-world partners, brainstorm innovative solutions, and develop polished deliverables for industry-based projects.
Designing projects with real-world audiences gives students a meaningful reason to produce high-quality work. Whether developing a magazine, designing a campaign, or creating digital media, students learn to collaborate, manage workflows, and tailor their work to meet the needs of real-world applications. Generative AI can serve as a partner in this process by helping students generate ideas, draft and refine content, adapt to design constraints, and plan visuals. With thoughtful integration, AI allows students to focus on higher-order thinking and creativity while improving efficiency and the overall quality of their deliverables.
Students utilized AI to assist in the production of this health-focused magazine.
This report complies learnings from the School Teams AI Collaborative, which was a partnership between FullScale and Leading Educators that brought together ~80 educators from 19 schools who were on the leading edge of implementing AI in schools. This report shares insights and guidance about how to implement AI-enabled instructional practices and what the sector needs to do in order to cultivate transformational leaps in education.
Students, staff members, and community partners share their reflections on the Industry Work-Based Challenge students did as part of Ulster BOCES’ New Visions Health Program.
Lynwood High School teacher Jacqueline Oropeza uploaded these slides from a presentation about research papers and properly citing sources using the MLA format into ChatGPT and prompted it to create guided notes and practice problems. She also used the AI tool Gamma to create the slides.
